Beacon Subscription Fees Frozen
Third Age Trust Trading has announced that the fees payable by u3as for using Beacon has been frozen at £1 per member for the 2021/22 financial year.
Category: BENEFITS OF BEACON
Testimonials and other sales and marketing material
Resolving Email Problems
Photo by Stephen Phillips – Hostreviews.co.uk on Unsplash Roy Biggs, the Team Lead for on-going help, gives us the following tips on how to maximise the chances of your Beacon email being delivered successfully, and how to approach problem-solving if problems do arise. An Insight to email Issues When a problem occurs with Beacon email, […]
Beacon can help your u3a now – don’t delay!
Thinking of moving to Beacon? There’s no need to wait for Beacon 2. Joining now will aid your journey to Beacon 2.
Beacon 2 Reporting
Beacon 2 will include the ability tio write your own reports. But what reports would you like to see out of the box?
Using Beacon to keep in touch during the lockdown
This website asked U3As how Beacon was helping them during the lockdown. Read what Downe and Dunmow U3As told us.
West Lothian Becomes 400th Beacon User
West Lothian U3A became the 400th to benefit from Beacon. Meet their membership secretary, Helen Duffin, to hear how it went.
400th Beacon U3A About To Sign Up
The number of U3As using Beacon has grown from 300 to 400 over the lifetime of this website.
“The source of all member information”
Beacon site administrator Andy from Canterbury and District U3A explains what led his U3A to implement Beacon and how they have benefited. Canterbury & District have been Beacon users since December 2017. In common with many long-established U3As, in the early days we did admin with spreadsheets. Later, we progressed to a Microsoft Access […]
“Beacon: Efficient, Reliable and Fast”
Membership Secretary of Chalfonts U3A, Val, tells Beacon News how the system has helped her in her role. Three words to describe Beacon: Efficient, Reliable and Fast. As the Membership Secretary of a new, and rapidly growing, U3A I was so pleased to find Beacon. Our data was moved into it very quickly by the […]
Beacon goes to the Conference
The national U3A conference took place this week in Nottingham, and representatives of the Beacon Team were on hand to spread the word about the benefits of using Beacon to the many U3As present at the Conference. Frank Bailey (Beacon Support Lead), Marilyn Lean (Beacon Joining Lead) and John Hopkins (Beacon Engagement Lead) ran three […]